As mom to a two year old (and now knocked up with a second), I say yeah, it is that rough. Especially the part about crying for your wife’s sanity. I don’t know what it is (sleep deprivation? hormones? the knowledge that a tiny life is completely dependent on you for 100% of its needs?) but something happens after childbirth that makes women batsh!t crazy for awhile. For some, it’s a permanent crazy. Hope you’re not one of the unlucky ones.

Just enjoy the things you love because they’re going to go away for a long time. I say sleep in as much as possible the next month because that’s going bye-bye. Stay in bed and eat pizza and watch movies for an entire day. That is my idea of heaven right now. Doing nothing. Go to as many ball games as you can. I miss my season tickets to the Rays which we had to give up unless we wanted to raise our daughter in Tropicana Field, which I think might be child abuse.

THANK YOU! i just passed that “working from home” link to my entire office as i will be working from home starting in 2 weeks and I just got a round of applause. that was literally the funniest thing i have seen in months!

]]>By: foreverchipper10https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/07/07/you-asked-me-questions-on-twitter-so-i-shall-answer-them-7/#comment-159366
Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:55:00 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=69077#comment-159366Craig, I would hope Eric from True Blood would eat them both. I hope you are keeping up with the new season. In case you are not I will not go further into this comment than here.
]]>By: jimbo1949https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/07/07/you-asked-me-questions-on-twitter-so-i-shall-answer-them-7/#comment-159338
Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:03:17 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=69077#comment-159338Lumps in the taters, cause that’s real, but not in the gravy.
]]>By: acheron2112https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/07/07/you-asked-me-questions-on-twitter-so-i-shall-answer-them-7/#comment-159318
Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:37:00 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=69077#comment-159318Human play dom-jot?

Probably not surprisingly, “high school girl” figures prominently in my “Tapestry” answer, too. I don’t know if I’d really want to change it or not, though.

I had not seen the peanutfreemom twitter feed. Frakking brilliant.

My first child is arriving in about 2 weeks. If the Red Sox win the World Series this year, someone let me know, ok?

]]>By: Paul Zummohttps://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/07/07/you-asked-me-questions-on-twitter-so-i-shall-answer-them-7/#comment-159303
Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:16:17 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=69077#comment-159303We just had our second, and the oldest is just barely over two. Gotta say that so far it’s a breeze in comparison. Maybe it’s because our oldest is such a hellraiser that this one seems calm in comparison. But we’re actually sleeping at and through the night, which we totally didn’t with the oldest for the first 11 months.

And now of course I’ve just doomed us all . . .

]]>By: drunkenhooliganismhttps://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/07/07/you-asked-me-questions-on-twitter-so-i-shall-answer-them-7/#comment-159300
Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:12:24 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=69077#comment-159300I think I was trying to say that the sleeping and going out to a restaurant is great advice. and if you can get a round or two of golf in, now would be good.
]]>By: drunkenhooliganismhttps://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/07/07/you-asked-me-questions-on-twitter-so-i-shall-answer-them-7/#comment-159298
Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:10:54 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=69077#comment-159298It won’t be that rough at first. but if you completely lose your mind and decided to have another kid right away, say within 18 months or 2 years. it’s all that and worse. and all kinds of unimaginable imprisonment of your youth, soul, identity, golf game and everything you ever took for granted before.

And so much noise. All the time. the voices in my head can’t even get a word in.

]]>By: sdelmontehttps://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/07/07/you-asked-me-questions-on-twitter-so-i-shall-answer-them-7/#comment-159258
Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:26:52 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=69077#comment-159258I got to meet David Blaine last year, and he was a pretty nice guy.
]]>By: Jonny 5https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/07/07/you-asked-me-questions-on-twitter-so-i-shall-answer-them-7/#comment-159231
Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:03:29 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=69077#comment-159231“My wife and I are expecting our 1st baby next month. What should I spend the next 4 weeks doing? All baby prep is complete.”

After you’re done crying, go do things you love because all of them will be slowly stripped away, one by one. Cry for the loss of your youth. Tell your wife how beautiful she is, even if she more resembles a pregnant version of Satan. Cry for the loss of your beautiful wife’s sanity. Cry some more. Buy a dog, you’ll need someone to talk to when the Wife won’t because you did “something wrong”. Cry for the loss of your sanity.

]]>By: JBerardihttps://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/07/07/you-asked-me-questions-on-twitter-so-i-shall-answer-them-7/#comment-159151
Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:58:18 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=69077#comment-159151“I haven’t looked at them too closely, but given that this Huntsman fellow has seemed to make all of the right enemies, he likely has something to recommend him.”

Huntsman’s trying to present himself as the Reasonable Centrist™ alternative to the Bachmann/Palin/Gingrich clown show, and he’s got a better record on social issues than pretty much anyone else in the GOP, but look at his economic policies. He still favors the massively regressive “flat tax” for instance. In other words, he’s not going to demagog minorities, the working poor, union members, etc… instead he’ll say some nice stuff about them before devastating them economically. Well, I guess most people do like a kiss before they get screwed…